黑料不打烊

Our Team

Tutors are Master's and PhD students in a variety of disciplines at 黑料不打烊 with a strong background in teaching and/or tutoring writing. Several tutors have already completed graduate degrees and are also professional educators who have years of experience teaching academic and professional writing.

Farhan Ahmed

Farhan Ahmed is a writer, musician and Well-Being Coach, with a Master鈥檚 in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore. Prior to moving to Montreal, Farhan was a foreign policy journalist in Bangladesh and a Market Experience Lead at Google in Singapore. As a freelance editor, he has worked on several books published internationally, including by Oxford University Press. Since 2020, Farhan has also presented workshops for Graphos/黑料不打烊 Writing Centre, drawing upon his diverse experience across different fields, to present novel ways of approaching their writing.

Janie B茅riault

Janie is a PhD student in English at 黑料不打烊 University, where she specializes in Postcolonial and World Literature. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Literature, the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. In addition to having worked at the MWC for 6 years, she has previously tutored at the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Academic Writing Help Centre and has taught ESL courses at Berlitz Learning Centre.

Martin Breul

Martin Breul is a PhD student in the Department of English. His FRQSC-funded work explores literary online publishing. His further research interests include the representation of refugees in comics, on which he completed his M.A. research with generous funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the reception of Canadian literature in socialist East Germany during the Cold War. His works of poetry, flash fiction, and reviews have appeared online and in print in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, Acta Victoriana, The Honest Ulsterman, and others. He is a nominee for Best-of-the-Net 2023 and recipient of the Mona Elaine Adilman Prize in eco-poetry at 黑料不打烊 in 2021.

Marc Ducusin

Marc has a PhD in English literature and has taught courses in the English department, the School of Continuing Studies, the Faculty of Management, and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. His writing has been published in Critical Survey, Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture, and Ivey Business Journal.

Yusuf Saadi

Yusuf is a PhD student in English at 黑料不打烊 with a focus on the environmental humanities. He previously tutored at the writing centre at the University of Victoria, and he has taught introductory literature and writing courses at the CEGEP level. His first book of poetry, Pluviophile, was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize, and his creative writing can be found in literary journals across Canada.

Alexander St-Laurent

Alexander earned his PhD. in English Studies at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al in 2020. His dissertation explores the figure of the prophet in Southern Gothic fiction. He has taught literature and evaluated academic writing at the post-secondary level since 2012. He has also worked as a literary translator and a dramaturg. His translation of Louis Patrick Leroux鈥檚 False Starts appeared with Talon Books in 2016. His translation of Hugo Beauchemin-Lachapelle鈥檚 poetry appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2016.

William Valli猫re

William earned his MA in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University in 2015. His first book of poetry appeared in 2019, and his translations of the French medieval poet Rutebeuf will appear in the spring of 2023. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Best Canadian Poetry, Event, Grain, Plenitude, and many other places. He has taught English as well as Translation at varying postsecondary levels, and works closely with language, and how it communicates meaning, on a daily basis.

Holly Vestad

Holly has worked in editorial positions or freelanced since 2014. Throughout her career, she has helped writers shape texts in varied stages and among different genres into polished works ready for submission. She was the Managing Editor at Caitlin Press and has held numerous writing workshops in a university setting. She holds an MA in English Literature and Print Culture from Simon Fraser University and completed three years of the PhD at 黑料不打烊, including successfully defending her research paper on Gertrude Stein鈥檚 interest in early-twentieth-century film technology, before deciding to leave the program to pursue a career in editing.

Emily Wilson

Emily works in post-secondary marketing as a full-time copywriter. Her research in English Literature involved explorations of neurodivergence in contemporary fiction. She has also taught core writing courses in the English Department at Concordia University and in the Desautels Faculty of Management at 黑料不打烊.

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